Ask of me, and I will give thee the nations for thine inheritance, And the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

But as for me, in the abundance of thy lovingkindness will I come into thy house: In thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

For thou wilt bless the righteous; O Jehovah, thou wilt compass him with favor as with a shield.

But Jehovah sitteth as king for ever: He hath prepared his throne for judgment;

His ways are firm at all times; Thy judgments are far above out of his sight: As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.

He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.

Break thou the arm of the wicked; And as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

In Jehovah do I take refuge: How say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain;

The words of Jehovah are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, Purified seven times.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon Jehovah?

As for the saints that are in the earth, They are the excellent in whom is all my delight.

As for the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the ways of the violent.

Keep me as the apple of the eye; Hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with beholding thy form.

As for God, his way is perfect: The word of Jehovah is tried; He is a shield unto all them that take refuge in him.

Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.

As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me; The foreigners shall submit themselves unto me.

Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, And rejoiceth as a strong man to run his course.

Thou wilt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger: Jehovah will swallow them up in his wrath, And the fire shall devour them.

They gape upon me with their mouth, As a ravening and a roaring lion.

All the paths of Jehovah are lovingkindness and truth Unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: Redeem me, and be merciful unto me.

Deliver me not over unto the will of mine adversaries: For false witnesses are risen up against me, And such as breathe out cruelty.

Jehovah sat as King at the Flood; Yea, Jehovah sitteth as King for ever.

As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved.

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications When I cried unto thee.

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. Selah

Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding; Whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in, Else they will not come near unto thee.

He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap: He layeth up the deeps in store-houses.

Let thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, be upon us, According as we have hoped in thee.

Jehovah is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, And saveth such as are of a contrite spirit.

Let them be as chaff before the wind, And the angel of Jehovah driving them on.

Unrighteous witnesses rise up; They ask me of things that I know not.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I afflicted my soul with fasting; And my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb.

And he will make thy righteousness to go forth as the light, And thy justice as the noon-day.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To slay such as are upright in the way.

But the wicked shall perish, And the enemies of Jehovah shall be as the fat of lambs: They shall consume; In smoke shall they consume away.

For such as are blessed of him shall inherit the land; And they that are cursed of him shall be cut off.

As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together; The end of the wicked shall be cut off.

For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

But I, as a deaf man, hear not; And I am as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

Yea, I am as a man that heareth not, And in whose mouth are no reproofs.

Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Blessed is the man that maketh Jehovah his trust, And respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: Let such as love thy salvation say continually, Jehovah be magnified.

And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, And settest me before thy face for ever.

As the hart panteth after the water brooks, So panteth my soul after thee, O God.

As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Trembling took hold of them there, Pain, as of a woman in travail.

As we have heard, so have we seen In the city of Jehovah of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah

As is thy name, O God, So is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: Thy right hand is full of righteousness.

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it.

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself: But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

But as for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God: I trust in the lovingkindness of God for ever and ever.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon God?

As for me, I will call upon God; And Jehovah will save me.

He hath put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him: He hath profaned his covenant.

His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war: His words were softer than oil, Yet were they drawn swords.

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.

The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.

Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away, Like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

Thou wilt prolong the king's life; His years shall be as many generations.

My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; And my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips;

Iniquities prevail against me: As for our transgressions, thou wilt forgive them.

For thou, O God, hast proved us: Thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: As wax melteth before the fire, So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

When ye lie among the sheepfolds, It is as the wings of a dove covered with silver, And her pinions with yellow gold.

When the Almighty scattered kings therein, It was as when it snoweth in Zalmon.

The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands upon thousands; The Lord is among them, as in'sinai, in the sanctuary.

But God will smite through the head of his enemies, The hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his guiltiness.

But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Jehovah, in an acceptable time: O God, in the abundance of thy lovingkindness, Answer me in the truth of thy salvation.

Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee; And let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.

I am as a wonder unto many; But thou art my strong refuge.

They shall fear thee while the sun endureth, And so long as the moon, throughout all generations.

He will come down like rain upon the mown grass, As showers that water the earth.

His name shall endure for ever; His name shall be continued as long as the sun: And men shall be blessed in him; All nations shall call him happy.

Surely God is good to Israel, Even to such as are pure in heart.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone; My steps had well nigh slipped.

They are not in trouble as other men; Neither are they plagued like other men.

Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covereth them as a garment.

As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.

So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee.

They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees.

And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that set not their heart aright, And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand as a heap.

He clave rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, And winged birds as the sand of the seas:

Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

Do thou unto them as unto Midian, As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;

Who perished at Endor, Who became as dung for the earth.

O my God, make them like the whirling dust; As stubble before the wind.

As the fire that burneth the forest, And as the flame that setteth the mountains on fire,